Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 280 295
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -86
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 480 563 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.05% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.16% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 221 282 353
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £93,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,627 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.29% -0.57% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,482 48,584 49,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.16% 90.44% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,500 23,705 37,321
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 426 £70,000 +3.70% 280
London +73 239 £85,000 +9.68% 71
UK excluding London -62 185 £62,500 -3.29% 263
Work from Home +25 169 £75,000 +15.38% 124
South East -27 55 £57,500 -11.54% 90
North of England -3 43 £73,750 +5.36% 48
Midlands -18 40 £59,000 -5.60% 34
West Midlands +1 27 £57,468 -8.05% 14
Yorkshire +9 24 £77,500 +19.23% 22
North West +1 18 £70,000 - 20
South West -25 17 £62,500 +4.17% 29
East of England +23 15 £72,000 -0.69% 36
Northern Ireland +1 11 £75,000 +26.20% 4
East Midlands -29 11 £80,000 +33.33% 19
Wales +3 4 £53,750 -16.16% 12
Scotland -3 3 £42,000 -29.33% 17
North East -1 1 - - 7

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.75%) Confluence
2 6 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) CICS
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.42%) MTS
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.83%) Trello
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.83%) Shopify
5 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (15.21%) SaaS
2 54 (11.25%) Azure
3 47 (9.79%) AWS
4 22 (4.58%) GCP
5 21 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.13%) PaaS
8 14 (2.92%) GitHub
9 11 (2.29%) H2O.ai
9 11 (2.29%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.46%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.04%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.83%) Collibra
13 4 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.83%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.63%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.63%) Vertex AI
15 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.92%) Broadband
2 10 (2.08%) HTTP
3 8 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.46%) WAN
5 6 (1.25%) LAN
5 6 (1.25%) RTP
6 5 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.04%) Wireless
7 4 (0.83%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.63%) 5G
8 3 (0.63%) Multicast
9 2 (0.42%) ATM
10 1 (0.21%) 4G
10 1 (0.21%) GPRS
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) Modbus
10 1 (0.21%) Network Security
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
10 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.96%) Power BI
1 19 (3.96%) Relational Database
2 18 (3.75%) Metadata
3 15 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.71%) RDBMS
5 12 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.04%) Tableau
9 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.42%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Big Data
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 32 (6.67%) JIRA
2 7 (1.46%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.83%) ERwin
3 4 (0.83%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 182 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 176 (36.67%) Finance
3 105 (21.88%) Marketing
4 91 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.00%) Banking
6 44 (9.17%) Legal
7 34 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (6.88%) Retail
9 31 (6.46%) Financial Institution
10 28 (5.83%) Law
11 26 (5.42%) Manufacturing
12 24 (5.00%) Public Sector
13 22 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (3.54%) Electronics
15 17 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (3.54%) Telecoms
16 15 (3.13%) Digital Economy
17 11 (2.29%) Publishing
18 10 (2.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 136 (28.33%) Product Manager
2 68 (14.17%) Lead
3 62 (12.92%) Senior
4 30 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.79%) Product Lead
5 23 (4.79%) Product Owner
6 21 (4.38%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (3.96%) Product Management Director
8 17 (3.54%) Digital Product Manager
9 15 (3.13%) Change Manager
9 15 (3.13%) Developer
9 15 (3.13%) Security Engineer
10 13 (2.71%) Architect
11 11 (2.29%) Data Manager
11 11 (2.29%) Technical Support
12 10 (2.08%) Development Engineer
12 10 (2.08%) Python Developer
12 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (2.08%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.38%) REST
2 14 (2.92%) YAML
3 11 (2.29%) Keras
3 11 (2.29%) PyTorch
3 11 (2.29%) TensorFlow
4 7 (1.46%) EDI
4 7 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.46%) Flask
4 7 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (1.25%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.04%) .NET
6 5 (1.04%) Node.js
7 4 (0.83%) JSON
7 4 (0.83%) OAuth
7 4 (0.83%) SAML
7 4 (0.83%) SOAP
7 4 (0.83%) XML
8 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.83%) Product Ownership
2 56 (11.67%) Onboarding
3 34 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.92%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.88%) Social Media
9 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.46%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.46%) IoT
9 7 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 7 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.83%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.29%) Linux
2 7 (1.46%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (49.17%) Roadmaps
2 191 (39.79%) Agile
3 132 (27.50%) Product Roadmap
4 117 (24.38%) Product Strategy
5 112 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 77 (16.04%) User Experience
9 75 (15.63%) AI
9 75 (15.63%) Analytics
10 68 (14.17%) Information Security
11 65 (13.54%) Mentoring
12 63 (13.13%) Computer Science
13 61 (12.71%) Decision-Making
13 61 (12.71%) Product Vision
14 56 (11.67%) User Stories
15 53 (11.04%) B2B
15 53 (11.04%) Business Development
15 53 (11.04%) Coaching
15 53 (11.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.54%) Python
2 37 (7.71%) SQL
3 25 (5.21%) Java
4 14 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.29%) Go
6 8 (1.67%) Bash
6 8 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.83%) C#
8 3 (0.63%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) Groovy
10 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 110 (22.92%) Degree
2 50 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 33 (6.88%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.38%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.88%) MBA
7 8 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.46%) PMP
9 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.83%) CISM
9 4 (0.83%) CISSP
9 4 (0.83%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.63%) CITP
10 3 (0.63%) CSPO
10 3 (0.63%) HNC
11 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.25%) QA
2 23 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.75%) NIST
4 17 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 15 (3.13%) NCSC
6 6 (1.25%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.04%) IFRS
7 5 (1.04%) SLA
8 4 (0.83%) GDPR
8 4 (0.83%) PMO
8 4 (0.83%) SEPA
9 3 (0.63%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.42%) COREP
10 2 (0.42%) FINREP
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (2.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.83%) vSphere
3 2 (0.42%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.71%) Terraform
3 7 (1.46%) Ansible
3 7 (1.46%) Argo
3 7 (1.46%) Kustomize
3 7 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.83%) Google
3 18 (3.75%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.33%) Databricks
5 13 (2.71%) SAP
6 12 (2.50%) Dell
7 11 (2.29%) NVIDIA
8 9 (1.88%) Foundry
9 6 (1.25%) Oracle
9 6 (1.25%) Zoho
10 5 (1.04%) Adobe
11 4 (0.83%) Sage
11 4 (0.83%) VMware
11 4 (0.83%) YouTube
12 3 (0.63%) Apple
12 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.63%) CQG
12 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.63%) Reuters
12 3 (0.63%) Tenable